13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
No, I'm not asking you to name them. I just wanted to ask, in terms of your analysis, if there's anything that strikes you in terms of the kinds of local authorities they are. Or are they completely random in terms of the pattern?
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Is there anything in common in terms of those five areas? Are there any common factors? Are they rural areas? Are they small local authorities, for example? Is there some sort of—?
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Can you give us an idea of where we've reached in terms of the local authorities currently?
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Chair. Just a couple of questions on Flying Start expansion to start with. By what date do you anticipate that the childcare element of Flying Start will be rolled out to all two-year-olds? What is the situation currently in terms of the roll-out…
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Diolch.
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Chair. We've had evidence from some of the focus groups that the committee has been engaging with, for example, in terms of the way that qualifications have an impact on those who look after children, child minders and so forth, and how Flying…
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Okay. Thank you.
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
So, we're talking about a few years—two or three years there.
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Just one issue to follow up there in terms of the register: when can we expect a decision on that? And also you talked about Scotland—that it's already happened there—and you've looked at their experiences. So, in terms of what you mentioned in terms of what…
13 May 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Just to follow up quickly on that, in terms of the use of having one single platform, particularly when we think about the most disadvantaged families, what conversations are you having with the Minister for social justice in terms of how this could come…
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Coal tip and opencast mine remediation
You mentioned in quite a bit of length there about what the Government is doing in relation to Ffos-y-fran, and now you're talking about the new forthcoming legislation. Will that include other opencast mines, such as the one I mentioned in East Pit?
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Coal tip and opencast mine remediation
Well, you should perhaps talk to your ancestors. Our industrial past is etched in the landscape of the area in which I live and that I represent. Across my region of South Wales West, there are more than 900 disused tips, with the highest number of any local…
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Coal tip and opencast mine remediation
Before I start, I just want to say, as the granddaughter of miners, I think that contribution by Joel James showed a terrible lack of understanding of the industrial history of Wales, and of the community that he purports to represent. Our industrial past is—
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'How we must all play our part: a public health approach to halting the epidemic in gender-based violence'
Okay. Diolch yn fawr.
8 May 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'How we must all play our part: a public health approach to halting the epidemic in gender-based violence'
Social media is famously lacking in nuance. While the debates can be superficial, frivolous, polarised or even hateful, it can, nevertheless, sometimes be helpful in bringing an issue into focus and spreading awareness of that issue. The 'man versus bear'…
7 May 2024 , Plenary
& 9. Legislative Consent Motion on the Victims and Prisoners Bill—motion 1, and Legislative Consent Motion on the Victims and Prisoners Bill—motion 2
Before speaking in detail about the content of the clauses in the Victims and Prisoners Bill that require consent, I would once again like to state Plaid Cymru's position that decisions relating to devolved areas that are within the competence of the Senedd…
7 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I’d like to thank Jane Dodds for raising this important question. The reality is that Wales's aspiration to be a nation of sanctuary is being entirely undermined by the fact that we do not have the power to fully realise it. Wales is now part of the…
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: Gaza—A Welsh response
That speaks volumes, really.
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: Gaza—A Welsh response
You'll remember that, in the Scottish Parliament, there was a debate held calling for an immediate ceasefire. During that debate the former First Minister Humza Yousaf said that he had sent a letter from the Scottish Government to both Rishi Sunak and Keir…
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: Gaza—A Welsh response
More than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza and, according to the UN, 72 per cent are thought to be women and children. As a woman, parliamentarian and as a representative of Welsh women in this place, I have a moral duty to use my voice to condemn the…
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Cass review
—of being the most LGBTQ+ friendly country in Europe?
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Cass review
—feel confident and empowered to support pupils, especially in view of the toxic and reactionary and sometimes misleading response that has developed following the publication of this report. Will the Cabinet Secretary agree with me that it's through…
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Cass review
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. The priority for Plaid Cymru when discussing this issue—and it should be a priority for us all—is that the well-being of our children and young people, their views and their experiences, are absolutely central to their care, and any…
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'A Warmer Winter: P-06-1326 The Senedd should scrutinise the prepayment meter scandal in Wales'
I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to this debate, because fuel poverty has been one of the main areas of inquiry of the Equality and Social Justice Committee, of which I am a member. And, as Plaid Cymru's spokesperson on social justice, the…
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
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